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Doofy
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Doofy asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 8 years ago

Do you think rising ocean levels will make the Panama Canal disappear completely?

As we all well know, ocean levels are supposedly rising at a rate of a few centimeters a year. So, within a hundred years, that means roughly 3 vertical meters (9 feet) of coastline will disappear. Panama is a low-lying area (sea level), which means much of the land nearby will be consumed by the sea. Not to mention, the levies will break and so forth. This could separate the continents of Central and South America completely. This means no bridges to and from the separate continents. Only by air or boat will you be able to cross. Not only will this create more jobs, it will call for a whole new industry in the region supported by ferries and small planes used solely to shuttle passengers across the widening gap.

Your thoughts?

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  • 8 years ago
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    The numbers you are citing for rate of rise in ocean levels are NOT universally confirmed. Point in fact a number of locations globally cite either significantly lower rates of rise and in some cases declines. Many of the values showing higher rates of raising ocean levels have been demonstrated to be more closely related to plate techtonics the true ocean level rise. i.e. the land is sinking, not the ocean rising...

    From this, I do not believe there is any evidence to support ocean level rise like you are suggesting. some claim ice melt in the antarctic. They ignore that the antarctic has been COOLING for the past 30 years. Our most accurate period of the instrument record for the antarctic by the way. also sea ice in the antarctic is increasing not decreasing. The glaciers are growing and expanding out to sea...

    If the ENTIRE ARCTIC melted it would not move the ocean levels by even 1/10th of a millimeter because it is all float ice.

    Last but not least as another has already posted. Panama has a mountain range running down it. You would need ocean level rise of 1,000's of feet for the Panama region to be entirely submerged.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    At different times in the past, Central America and South America have been pierced by sea portals. Lake Nicaragua is the remains of one. The Panama Canal is on the site of another. A third went through what is now Colombia. I'm too lazy to look up the site of the fourth. Flooding of the Panama Canal is within the realm of possibility.

    While ferrymen will see a boom in employment, don't forget the farmers and others who will be losing their land.

  • Kano
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The current rate of rise will be more like 6 inches at the end of this century, I don't think that will upset the Panama canal.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    How can actual happenings, such as glaciers melting and transforming into ocean stages be a trick? those issues are occurring, and we would desire to evolve to the ameliorations around us. we additionally should detect strategies to no longer greater effective the situations we've created in our ecosystem.

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  • p
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Would have been nice if You had done some research for Yourself .That way others would,nt have to be doing Your homework for You.Answer is NO .Now get a book and find out why for Yourself.

  • Jay L
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    have you ever looked at a map seriously??

    There us a major mountain range that the panama canal bisects

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I think it is right, after some years it will happen due to global warming.

  • 7 years ago

    LEVEES, NOT LEVIES, two different things.

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